Upside Down : Seasons among the Nunamiut
Margaret B. Blackman
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Lincoln : : UNP - Nebraska, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (306 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; August; Tulugak Lake and Beyond; Maps; Anaktuvuk Pass, You Copy?; They Come In; They Go Out; Picking; The Upside Down Season; Fieldnotes; Writing History from the Pass; The "New" Eskimo; Of Meat and Hunger and Everlasting Gob Stoppers; Staying Home; Masks; The Only Road That Goes There Is the Information Superhighway; Remembering Susie Paneak; The Exhibition; Airplane! Airplaaane!; Dispatches from the Field; Fifty Years in One Place; Weekend Nomads; The Things We Carry; Town. - May-North of NorthEd's Place; Happy July Fourth; Faces of the Nunamiut; Notes; Back Cover. - In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska's oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century's worth of innovations, from electricity and bush planes to snow machines and the Internet. Anthropologist Margaret B. Blackman has been doing summer fieldwork among the Nunamiut over a span of almost twenty years, an experience richly and movingly recounted in this book. A vivid descriptio
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| ISBN | 0803213352
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